Carolyn Moya v. Healthport Technologies, LLC

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The question before this court is whether a personal injury attorney who obtains his or her client's written consent to receive copies of the client's health care records is a "person authorized by the patient" under Wis. Stat. § 146.83(3f)(b), such that the attorney need not pay certification and retrieval fees when requesting copies of the records from a health care provider. The circuit court concluded that such an attorney is exempt from the fees as a "person authorized by the patient." The court of appeals in examining the same statutory language answered this question in the…